Lewis was one of the “Big Six” leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, helping to plan and speak at 1963’s March on Washington. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986 and today represents Georgia’s 5th District.

Georgia Representative John Lewis has come out in support of the Equality Act in a new video from the Human Rights Campaign. Lewis was one of the “Big Six” leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, helping to plan and speak at 1963’s March on Washington. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in …

The organization’s support came into question earlier this week after Gregory T. Angelo, the former president of gay conservative group Log Cabin Republicans, implied the NAACP was not behind the bill. In an opinion piece titled "Don't Fall for the 'Equality Act,'" Angelo stated that "African American legacy civil rights groups are absent" from an "exhaustive list" of organizations supporting the Equality Act. He specifically cited the NAACP.

Democrats have introduced the Equality Act, aiming to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the classes protected against discrimination by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — and hate groups want you to be scared.

“Picture walking into your child’s preschool for mandatory transgender story hour,” ????!!!! SAY WHAT!? Do they have mandatory 'story hour' of male, for males, and female for females! All the excuses brought can be solved with common sense: Shower Stales and information about sexuality should be private. Who in the hell wants to know what I do in my bedroom when they interview me for a job or give me a diploma!

There are plenty of pervert supervisors and employers who want to know as they get off on knowing. The people screaming about these ridiculous things are phobic because of their own tendencies they are attempting to hide or deny.

U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg ruled that Palm Beach County’s and the city of Boca Raton’s bans on state-licensed mental health professionals providing conversion therapy to minors were likely constitutional and refused to issue an injunction. An injunction would have allowed conversion therapy to continue while the lawsuit works its way through court.

HRC celebrated the historic passage of the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) in New York as well as legislation protecting LGBTQ youth in the state from the dangerous and debunked practice of so-called “conversion therapy.”